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The Nemesiache
Consciousness-raising with the camera and mythological cinefables
16.10.2025
- Curator
- Sonia D'Alto
- In the presence of
- Bruna Felletti
- Sonia D'Alto
- Imma Tralli (Marea Art Project)
- Roberto Pontecorvo (Marea Art Project)
The event, curated by Sonia D’Alto, invites the public to rediscover the history and imagination of the group Le Nemesiache.
The event will trace the history of the Neapolitan feminist group Le Nemesiache through three moments: the presentation of the book Le Nemesiache: Reclaiming Mythological Rituals (Mousse Publishing, 2025), edited by Sonia D’Alto in dialogue with Imma Tralli and Roberto Pontecorvo of Marea Art Project, winners of the Italian Council – XIII edition, for the realisation of the publication; a conversation between the curator and Bruna Felletti, a long-standing member of the group; and finally, the screening of a selection of Super 8 short films by Lina Mangiacapre, made with the collective in the 1970s and proposed by Sonia D’Alto.
The Nemesiache are a Neapolitan collective of artists, pacifists and feminists, founded by artist Lina Mangiacapre in 1970 and active mainly in Naples, Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast, with branches in Rome and Paris. Their interdisciplinary approach - combining cinema, performance, critical writing, painting, poetry, music, collage and costumes - fused feminism, mythology, storytelling, science fiction and radical imagination.
Publication
Presentation by Sonia D’Alto of Le Nemesiache (2025) in dialogue with Imma Tralli and Roberto Pontecorvo of Marea Art Project.
Le Nemesiache: Reclaiming Mythological Rituals (Mousse Publishing, 2025) brings together previously unpublished archives, photographs and posters, and enriches it with new critical texts, highlighting the collective and processual dimension of the Nemesiache’s work and restoring its artistic, political and cosmological force.
The original contributions commissioned for the occasion are by Chiara Bottici, Federica Bueti, Cairo Clarke, Sonia D’Alto, Arnisa Zeqo, Giulia Damiani, Giusi Palomba, Elvira Vannini and Giovanna Zapperi.
The book was awarded at the 13th edition of the Italian Council.
Conversation
Sonia D’Alto and Bruna Felletti, a historic member of the group, will look back at the history and actions of the Nemesiache, their involvement in Rome and Naples, the creation of feminist spaces and their mythological methodology. Myth, central to their practice, links feminist struggles and ecological awareness, opening up a cosmological and transfeminist dimension that reinvents the world based on ancestral tales, myths and spiritualities, in resonance with new waves of women’s art.
Screening
In the 1970s, Lina Mangiacapre and Le Nemesiache made short films on Super 8, exploring collaborative cinema, the application of feminist self-awareness methodology in public space, and the use of myth to reinvent cinema as a collective ritual and expanded form of cinematic expression.
ANTISTRIP, 1976
In the intimacy of Lina Mangiacapre's home, the Nemesiache invent a transfeminist cabaret avant la lettre, combining cross-dressing, music and rebellion. Play becomes a ritual of liberation, where bodies and desires break free from social and gender norms.
AUTOCOSCIENZA, 1976
An unedited short film in which the camera becomes a "third eye". Between Paestum, Naples and the Phlegrean Fields, Niobe embodies a poetic vision of a woman reclaiming her territory: world, sea, sky, cinema.
LE SIBILLE, 1978
Les Nemesiache reinvent the sibylline ritual to denounce violence against women and awaken an ecological and feminist conscience. Bodies, landscapes and myths intertwine in an insurrectionary, prophetic vision.
Practical information
Thursday, October 16, 2025
6:30pm
Salle cinéma Michel Piccoli
Presentation, discussions and screenings in Italian.
Partners
In collaboration with Italian Council, Archivio Le Nemesiache (formerly Le Tre Ghinee association), Archivio Lina Mangiacapre
For the publication, with the support of The World of Women Foundation Rome ETS
Credits
① Il mare ci ha Chiamate, 1978, 18′ (still).
Directed by Lina Mangiacapre. Performance: Nemesiache. Production: Le Tre Ghinee/Nemesiache Cooperative. Courtesy: Archivio delle Nemesiache, Archivio Lina Mangiacapre.
② Autocoscienza, 1976, 15′ (still).
Directed by Lina Mangiacapre (Nemesi). With : Teresa Mangiacapre (Niobe), Bruna Felletti (Karma). Courtesy: Archivio delle Nemesiache, Archivio Lina Mangiacapre.
③ Discesa e festa della poesia alla Gaiola, 1978.
Les Nemesiache. Courtesy: Archivio delle Nemesiache, Archivio Lina Mangiacapre.
④ Prove di trucco.
With: Consuelo Campone (Kore), Anna Grieco (Dafne). Courtesy: Archivio delle Nemesiache, Archivio Lina Mangiacapre.
⑤ Autocoscienza, 1976, 15′ (still).
Directed by Lina Mangiacapre (Nemesi). With : Teresa Mangiacapre (Niobe), Bruna Felletti (Karma). Courtesy: Archivio delle Nemesiache, Archivio Lina Mangiacapre.
⑥ Le Sibille, 1978, 25′ (still).
Directed by Lina Mangiacapre. Cast: Nemesiache. Production: Le Tre Ghinee/Nemesiache Cooperative. Courtesy: Archivio delle Nemesiache, Archivio Lina Mangiacapre.
Sonia D'Alto
Sonia D’Alto is a researcher, curator, author and occasional editor. She is currently a doctoral student at the HFBK in Hamburg with a practice-based project and teaches in the curatorial studies department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent. She has collaborated with several artist residencies, art institutions and universities, including the Venice Biennale, the Madre Museum (Naples), the Pini Foundation (Milan), documenta studies (Kassel), Villa Arson (Nice), AWARE (Paris), Frame Contemporary Art Finland (Helsinki) and de Appel (Amsterdam). Her curatorial research focuses on micro-histories and subaltern cosmologies, exploring the relationship between superstition and modernity, folk tales and hegemonic powers, through (trans)feminist practices, video performances, moving images and spiritual ecologies. She has published in journals such as e-flux journal, NERO, Flash Art, Mousse and Critique d’Art.
Marea Art Project
Marea Art Project is an international research and artist residency programme launched in 2021 on the Amalfi Coast, based on an idea by art historian Imma Tralli and cultural manager Roberto Pontecorvo. It grew out of a dialogue with Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director general of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art in Prato, and in collaboration with Carol LeWitt, chair of the board of trustees of the Yale University Art Gallery. The aim of the project is to broaden the view of the territory so that, after having been a place of transient consumption, it can once again become a space for research, experimentation and contemporary artistic creation open to the Mediterranean.
